Although we’ve been keeping bees for almost two years now, we’ve never harvested honey. I made the decision when we first got bees that I didn’t want to become the beekeeper who takes honey and then is forced to feed the bees to help them survive. We fed a lot our first year because we [...]
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Wayne was kind enough to spend his day off wandering up to Morganton to pick up our bees and deliver them to their new home. He borrowed my car – much easier to load things in and out of the trunk – added some cedar posts and cinderblocks for a make-shift hive stand, and [...]
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We promised ourselves we would do a complete inspection today. Because of our schedules today, we didn’t get the opportunity to open the hive until late in the evening (6pm). We try not to open the hives so late for several reasons. First, most of the bees will be in the hive that late in [...]
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Wow….it’s not often I get this excited about small white grubs… Wayne was home early from work and kindly opened the hive today. It was my drop dead day. My call another beekeeper in a panic looking for a queen day. Low and behold, Wayne found larva galore. The bees were much kinder now that [...]
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